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Healing After Trauma—THE DEATH OF A SPOUSE: This Post Written by Ian Wells

Anne Skyvington — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 04:17:22 +0000

Anne says: I’m reposting this today, as it is so very relevant to all of us as we age, and risk losing loved ones who are also ageing. My dear Grandma used to say how it’s those that are left who suffer, not the dying. And as Ian shows us, you can be comforted by […]

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An Invitation to a Qing Ming (Grave Sweeping) Ceremony in China: Text and Photos by Roger Britton

Anne Skyvington — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 01:13:49 +0000

A Guest Post on The Art of Creative Writing website, this post written by Roger Britton How it all started We had been hosting Chinese students in our home for several years from our sister school in Jinan. Each one stayed with us for two years at a time attending Years 11 and 12 at […]

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1963: An Outback Teaching Appointment To A Small School

Anne Skyvington — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 08:03:11 +0000

How would you fare if, like Alan Parkes, you were sent to “Bourke and Beyond” to run a small school in your first year out of Teachers’ College? Anne Writes: This is a guest post by a fellow student from the Armidale Teachers' College Class of 1961-62. I have merely reformatted it here. When I […]

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Armidale: The Gang of Four

Anne Skyvington — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 01:09:02 +0000

This is a guest post by Gordon Forth, a fellow student at Armidale Teachers College, who started there in 1962, a year after me. Gordon writes: Please find attached my somewhat scurrilous account of my time at ATC. I really had a lovely time at College, but was immature, a rather lazy student, who just […]

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Memories of a Country Education

Anne Skyvington — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 07:41:03 +0000

by Ian Harry Wells (Wellsy) Armidale is a city of learning, being home to the first NSW Teachers’ College established outside of Sydney. The Armidale Teachers’ College is a heritage-listed (now former) tertiary college at 122–132 Mossman Street, Armidale. It was designed by the New South Wales Government Architect, Mr Tolhurst, and after the demolition of […]

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Things Come in Threes by Ian Wells

Anne Skyvington — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 05:27:00 +0000

What would you do, if you lost your long-term partner? How would you cope with the grief? My Armidale Teachers’ College classmate, Ian, writes about just this. Feel free to share your own experiences of loss in the comments, and we will get back to you. Successes, disasters and catastrophes, good things, not so good […]

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Coping With Covid

Anne Skyvington — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 01:26:28 +0000

A Perspective from Two Young Women Covid isolation and protesters as seen through the (younger) eyes and voices of 2 women I am proud to call relatives: https://www.facebook.com/coronavirus_info/?page_source=covid_vaccine_faxit&hoisted_module_type=covid_vaccine_development Ange R questions deniers and ‘rebels without a clue’ on Facebook: I ask you this, why are you protesting about lockdowns when there is so much other […]

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A Story of a Genteel Ghost told by Roger Britton

Anne Skyvington — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 09:54:27 +0000

A Genteel Ghost a true story by Roger Britton I never believed in ghosts before, but now I am not quite sure … perhaps a “presence” is what I mean … St Mary’s Convent and school, in Warren, central New South Wales, had been the home for Josephite nuns for over one hundred years. A […]

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“Kids Will Be Kids” by Ian Harry Wells

Anne Skyvington — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 04:08:25 +0000

Here’s a story from my Teachers’ College friend, Ian Wells. It’s great for me to re-live that all-important primary school teaching experience through his words. It’s the kids’ future that is at stake, and they do it well in small schools. One Police School visit in the mid-seventies was particularly memorable, but it wasn’t so […]

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a father’s tale … by Ian (Harry) Wells

Anne Skyvington — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 09:35:29 +0000

There really are FEELINGS IN YOUR HEART you don’t even know exist until you have a child of your own. It’s a sensation without description. When our first-born finally arrived, it was the greatest day of my life. A fortnight after the expected time of birth, my wife was put into hospital, as the doctor […]

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